Simi goes to the Middle East

torsdag, oktober 30, 2008

i have now been to Hebron. Eappi has a team there. so i went to visit.Hebron is the secon largest city in the west bank. This is the only city that has settlements within the city. within the old city you find and see many settlements. in 1968 settlers hired a room in a hotell in the old city for 48 hours. then declared that they will not leave. This was the first settlement in Hebron.

walking around in the old city u feel that u are inside one big checkpoint, bulid up by many small ones.

u'll see many Israesli soldioers walking around, driving around and on the checkpoints.

In the marked u'll somewere find yourself walking under a net, this is because over the marked there is a settlers living. and they just trough there garbage down at/on the marked. so the Palestinans had to put a net up, to prevent the market for beeing full of garbage.

the settlers in hebron are there on religious beelifs. They mean that Hebron belongs to them.Many of the streets and palces there, are forbidden for the Palestinans.and the Palestinans have had to put nets and saecurity fences around their patios and teraases. o bee safe from stone troughing and etc.The settlers moves around freely...Isreaeli commander has alos ordered many shops to cloase, this has taken away the livelihood of thousned of the palestinans living in Hebron.

becuase of this the cityfeels like a ghost town.

the Israeli defense has in many incidents suprorted the settlers in their violence agains the Palestinans.

One example of this is the Cordoba School. Were the Plaestiansn kids go to school. On the other side of the street their is a settlerschool. And the kid from this school has been harassing the Palestinans children for a long time. trowning rocks at them, trying to puch them of the hill. While soldiers are standing looking.

søndag, oktober 12, 2008

Heavenly Father,We earnestly pray for all the people living and working in the land of the Holy One.We long for peace and understaning so that all the people can feel free and secure.Help all of us strive to build bridges of reconciliation and love, instead of walls of separation, which only creates fear and insecurity in the hearts and minds of everyone.We pray that those in authority will use their positions wisely, fairly, and we ask that you touch their hearts to understand the suffering and destruction selfish decisions create.This we ask in the name of Jesus.Amen.

lokking back at history of the Jews and lissening to a settler talking abouth what he means is rigth.

i am not gone go more into the settlement visit than saying that the person we met had a very clear oppinon on what was rigth and what he believed in. And that there was nothing wrong about settlements. and that it is written in the Holy book that this land belongs to the Jewish people.

back to the museum.

It was a a very nice museum. And it was giving good information on what happened to the Jews in the 2. world war. but almost all the "headlines" that were put up, i could transfer them over to Palestine.f.eks "in a short period people went from being citizens to being refugees".walls, refuges, prisoners, control posts, soldiers, ghettos....

For me i saw very many resemblances, when comparing it to the occupied Palestinian areas.

I think Holocaust was so bad, so sad and so cruel. more than 1,5 millons kids were murdered.

But somehow the same is happening again now, and has happend, too the Palestinans.

how can the Israeli Jews not see the resemblance?

Israeli soldiers goes to this museum, before thye start there service?placements in the Occupies territories.

I wonder how they see it?

In the museum, there is some trailcases of German soldiers, and many of them said in their trail, "i was just folowing orders". when i meet the soldiers, they somtimes answer, i am just following orders.

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